Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Television Filmography
2003 Moi, Hector Berlioz (also screenwriter, dialogist)
DUPUIS, JEAN-PAUL (1949, Lyon, Rhône,
France–)
Also a composer (notably for some Marcel Hanoun
fi lms), he directed experimental movies on painting,
music, theater, and dance.
Filmography
1973 Au-delà des Autres (medium-length)
1974 Arlequin des Rues
1975 L’Oiseau Cuvette (medium-length)
1977 Lithophonie (unreleased)
1979 Dansité (short)
Dreams and Light (short)
1980 L’Âge du Bois (short)
1981 Gina Pellon (medium-length)
Orlan (short)
Les Chants I à V (medium-length)
1982 Lied en Ré mineur (short)
1983 K Nô (short)
DURA, CHRISTIAN (1945, France–)
He entered fi lms as an assistant director (1970
Céleste / Un soffi o di piacere, Michel Gast, France /
Italy). His only feature was the story of a transsexual.
A playwright (1995 La Femme de Cristal), he also directed
cabaret revues (notably for Le Paradis Latin)
and is a dubbing director.
Filmography
1980 Comme une Femme (also screenwriter, dialogist)
DURAN COHEN, ILAN (1958, Paris, France–)
While studying management, he began shooting
amateur shorts. He spent seven years in New York,
where he studied cinema at New York University and
directed his fi rst professional short.
Filmography
1986 Headshot (short; USA)
1991 Lola Zipper (also screenwriter, dialogist; France
/ Canada)
2000 La Confusion des Genres (also co-screenwriter)
2004 Les Petits Fils (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor,
cinematographer)
2008 Le Plaisir de chanter (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
Television Filmography
2006 Les Amants de Flore
DURAND, JEAN • 349
DURAND, JEAN (December 15, 1882, Paris,
France–March 10, 1946, Paris, France)
A gifted drawer, he published his fi rst work at age sixteen
in a newspaper run by Georges Fagot, a future
director for Pathé, and illustrated the autobiography
of “Bibi-la-Purée,” a colorful fi gure of the Quartier
Latin who had been the secretary of poet Paul
Verlaine. An illustrator, journalist, actor, and author
of cabaret revues with Georges Fagot, he made his
directing debut for Pathé in 1908. He directed many
comic fi lms for such companies as Lux and Company
with his actors troupe named “Les Pouittes.” Then he
shot successful westerns with Joë Hamman. He also
was a co-screenwriter of Tarnished Reputations (Herbert
Blaché, Alice Guy, Léonce Perret, 1920, USA)
and assistant director (1925 Madame Sans-Gêne,
Léonce Perret). His wife was actress Berthe Dagmar
(1884–1934).
Filmography
1908 Belle-Maman bat les Records (short)
Inoubliable Berceuse (short)
Transformations élastiques / Les Vêtements cascadeurs
/ USA: Elastic Transformation (short)
Trop Crédules (short)
1909 Cyrano de Bergerac (short)
L’Enfant du Chercheur d’Or (short)
Frédéric le Grand (short; co-director with
Gérard Bourgeois)
Le Miracle du Collier (short)
Les Papas de Francine (short)
Sur le Sentier de la Guerre (short)
1910 Amitié de Cow Boy (short)
L’Amour du Ranch (short)
A Travers la Plaine (short)
L’Attaque d’un Train (short)
Les Aventures d’un Cow Boy à Paris (short)
Le Baptême de Calino (short)
Bornéo Bill (short)
Calino s’endurcit la Figure (short)
Capture génante (short)
Les Chasseurs de Fourrures (short)